In the centre of Oosterhout is a small municipal park. Once a larger ‘music garden’, it was bought many years ago by the Oosterhout local authority to build a car park for customers of the small shops at the local shopping centre. Two large sections had been hived off and transformed into parking premises when an action group managed to save the remaining part. Such oases of calm in the inner city are extremely important in the urban fabric, but are always under pressure from commercial interests.

6 Minuten, hoog tarief [6 minutes, premium parking rate] is an installation that makes a stand against what is happening to these kinds of special places as they are forced to yield to commercial goals. I placed the construction in a marginal area of the park, used for storage, and removed the gate, thereby affording access to this area for the duration of the project. The installation is supported by the gate piers. It is possible to pass under the installation to enter and climb it from the back, for a view over the park. The interior is painted entirely in the same blue used for Dutch traffic signs; from the front it resembles a blank traffic sign that sucks up the entire park.